Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-04-13

MEMS OE TEIE BAY.

NEWS OF TETE BAY.
The debate on the Irish coercion bill was
resumed in the British Parliament yesterday.
The steamer Victoria has been wrecked
near Dieppes No lives, it is thought, were
lost
It is stated that Russia and Great Britain
have effected a settlement of the Afghan
question.
The American consul's efforts to break up
the usury system in Morocco have been
successful.
The net increase of cash in the United
States Treasury during the month of March
was S9,719,S04
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal directors
will meet tomorrow to consider the ques-
ton OF reducing tolls.
General Albert Ordway will be appointed
brigadier general to command the militia OF
the District of Columbia.
President Cleveland has accepted an invl'
tation to attend the Piedmont Fair at At
lanta, Ga, next October.
At the Albany election yesterday the en-
tire democratic ticket was elected by major
tiles averaging 400.
LIE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT tudl WV llOO vas "
be placed in command of the National Drill
at Washington is contradicted.
An election board at one of the precincts
in Jersey City were arrested yesterday for
stuffing the ballot-box with democratic
tickets.
Rev. DR.. McGlynn arrived in Cincinnati
Yesterday, but Major John Byrne declined
to introduce him on Change, because he had
no sympathy with DR.. McGynns position.
The first days sale of lots yesterday at
Bessemer, Ala, aggregated $450,000. Bes
semer is town twelve miles from Birming-
ham which has four one hundred.ton fur
naces building.
Gov. Hill sent to the New York Assemb-
ly yesterday evening his veto of the High
License bill, based upon the grounds that
the bill is special Legislation, and that it is
clearly unconstitutional.
The spring floods in the Connecticut and
Black rivers are the highest for twenty
last night set the water back several miles,
flooding highways, meadows and farms.
A colored man living near Greenville,
Ala, locked his FIVE children, the eldest
aged eleven years, in his house and went Oft.
While he was absent the house caught fire
and the children were all burned to death.
A young man named Arthur OFT was
killed near Harper's Ferry, w. Va, yester-
day, by the accidental discharge of his gun,
and about the same time his brother was
killed in railroad accident near Garrett,
Indiana.
Benz. F. Gidden, David T. Mcnamara
and Thos. T. Mulcahy, members of Typo
graphical Union No. AZ, of New Haven,
Conn, convicted Of boycotting the journal
and Courier, of that city, were each fined
$50 and costs. The cost amounted to S403.
Sunday night Betty Oppy, who is con.
fined in jail at Marion, Ind, for INSIDE
meanor, fired from the prison window at an
unknown man who passed by the jail, and
put bullet through his hat. The prisoner
said she fired the shot because the man
threw kiss at her. 1t is not known how
she secured the revolver.
Hiram Evans, of Portland, Me-, went to
New York and agreed to buy 5000 worth
OF bogus money from Robert Simpson, who
accompanied him TO Fall River. Mass, to
receive payment Evans discovered that
that the supposed bogus money was only
newspapers, and tried TO have Simpson ar
rested, but he could not be held.
The Right Rev Alfred Lee, Bishop of tho
Diocese OF Delaware, and senior Bishop of
the Protestant Episcopal Church in the
United States, died at his home in Whining
ton, Del, yesterday, of typhoid fever, after
an illness of about two months. The de-
ceased was in his SOth year, and in June
next would have reached the fiftieth ami
veraary of bis ordination. Since the death
OF Bishop B B. Smith he has been the senior
Protestant Episcopal bishop, and his con-
secration antedates that ofany bishop of the
Anglican, Roman, or Greek church. He was
American member of the committee for the
revision Of the New Testament. The tuner.
al will take place Friday at O'Clock.